Australian Immigration Laws

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1454, 12 October 1905, Page 2

Australian Immigration Laws

Press Association.—Oonyriaht. Lonrn, Ootober 11 Rbcentlv the Times based a paragraph headed "Englishmen Excluded from Australia " upon a newspaper' cutting sent from Melbourne, giving oflioial docani6nts in tho cue of a groom named Gooderham. Mr. Wise, ao ex-Minister, wrote a letter to ihe Times, in which he characterised tho story as absurd and a. false and stinking-fish yarn, He declared'that a carefulsearoh failed to re- | veal the official doenmonts referred to. | Times cited from the newspaper text of Mr, Gogblan's certificate and Mr. Dalgety's letter on tho BDbjeot,\remarkingit was extremely difficult to learn Australia's real mini, 0 and yet," the Tints assei?1 ted," they were apparently authoritative declarations in oqo sense, and personal experiences in tho opposite sonse." |. Bnwwr, thii day. i Gooderhopi, a groom, oame to Sydney ■ from England with horses. Before leaying England ho was furnished with a letter (torn the Dalgoty Company, stating i that as he was going out under contract i he would not be ol'owetJ to stay in Auai tralia, and at the oame timo famishing him with a certificate obtainod from Mr i Ooghlan, Agent-General, exempting him ■from the provisions of the Immigration i Bestriction Act for a poriod of six months. 1 Mr. Deakin, when questioned in the House about tho matter, said that he had ' informed Mr. Coghlan, who had communicated with him on the subject, thii no certificate of exemption was nocessary in this case, but apparently tho letter to Mr, 1 Ooghlan had not been delivered beforo i Gooderham loft London. Mr. Dealtin further stated that ho was makiiig inluicies with the objeot of letting it bo known t]iat exemption certificates were absolutely nnnieessary in such casesi